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December 10, 2025 07:28PM
This is so funny....Just for another email from the MSC requesting us not to talk to the drug stores about us not servicing them anymore in the next month......This is just so funny....Sounds like The client really want to send out a big Christmas gift to the corporate
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December 11, 2025 04:11AM
the drug store i service i could see us keeping tbh, but again the ones i have they had entirely too many displays.

the big chain of gas stations i think will be up to the manager, i had 5 who have no stock and pulled their displays entirely. Another location i know will be getting torn down and rebuilt come jan/feb so i made sure to get the photos i needed then stock out all i could knowing that. get rid of it before it gets sent to another nearby store.

but the loss is a 1/3 of my income. but i am already trying to find another job until job market reopens in spring. ive cut down mystery shopping and am doing more public merch work,
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December 11, 2025 07:00AM
Yes I thought that was a funny communication too. I often wondered why they didn't want to identify who's the third party entity was stating that we work for product company and providing a virtual business card???. I still maintain they lost the contract. And don't want to prompt another company to take over the account. I feel they have not done me no favors with such short notice losing substantial income. This communication shows me they put a tattoo on their forehead real quick. Nobody should be afforded surprise notices. We the merchandisers are the ones that make sure the product is placed in the store and looking professional. I guess we're just the bottom feeders to the company.. with a communication with one of my contact persons on the account I made a comment well that's a substantial loss in your end of the deal too isn't it. The comment was don't worry we have other business coming in for our merchandisers.... right they lost the account.. like many of you I'm gun shy for taking any more work from the company... I too am looking for work elsewhere after this stunt
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December 11, 2025 07:02PM
CI Has been around for awhile. Projects come and projects go. They made us aware this was the last month. What more can they do. Wait til the end of the month when people start asking about the JAN pre staff?

I am sure they tried to save it or maybe they were just too far away on the numbers.

I don't fault CI here and I have yet to see any jobs that I was not offered for Dec listed for less.
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December 11, 2025 08:10PM
MSCs lose contracts all the time. I think TY itself was poorly managed to begin with. Poor communication to the stores about changes, that wasn't on CI, that was on TY. Regardless, I am also losing a lot of money with that project going away but something else will come along.
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December 11, 2025 10:34PM
True, at least they kind of let us know that it is ending, I've experience quite a few projects that have ended and MSC never let anyone knows unless we emailed and asked about it.

I am sure something else will come along.
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December 12, 2025 02:23AM
Out of curiosity, I looked online yesterday to see whether TY had job openings posted for in-house merchandisers. They have no open jobs.

On Indeed, they have a lot of very bad reviews from past and present employees. It seems as if they treated the merch company (and us) in the same poor manner they treat their employees.
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December 14, 2025 03:33AM
I am doing about 95 stores this month, some that I have not been in before. For the ones I have never been to, most were in very poor shape with low displays and product sitting in the back.

I will make a point of checking the TY displays in the future when I am doing other work in these stores.

I have already been to stores, I have been doing, where the display has been removed.

I would love to have 100 stores in my area where I was paid on the amount of product the stores sell. I wish the jobs paid well enough to act like a company rep instead of the just straightening up displays and putting in notes regarding product that get ignored.

I will be doing a 7/11 next week that has not had a display in months. They keep sending me back. I have other stuff around there so I keep going.

Many of us had figured the end was near and the email from Daniel was not surprising in the least to me.

I will miss the money but not working as much for the cold months is not really hurting my feelings.
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December 15, 2025 08:40PM
This comment should be pinned!!!!
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